As Jorge Silva, a former oil worker in Rio de Janeiro, watched the Petrobras corruption scandal unfold, he didn’t see numbers on a balance sheet; he saw his livelihood unravel. Behind every bribe Vitol paid to Brazilian officials, there was a worker like Silva—an...
There’s nothing like a glass of whiskey to unwind after a long day. But what if that sip of Beam Suntory came with a side of corruption? In an interconnected world, corporate actions in one country can send shockwaves across borders. When Beam Suntory paid bribes to...
Six miles west of downtown Corpus Christi lies an industrial graveyard, a site where waste from the oil boom was buried beneath layers of sand and soil. But the earth has not forgotten. At the Brine Service Company Superfund Site, pollutants like benzene, chromium,...